Paper box.



EATBN-TED SEPT.` 3, 1903.

J. Agsco'TT.

PAPER B0X.

APPLICATION FILED 0032.11", 1902.

` No nonna.,

` y of Massachusetts, have invented certain new.

No. 738,633. f

UNITED STATES Patented September 8, 1903.

PATENT EEICE.

JAMES A. SCOTT, OF SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO CHARLES E. FULLER, OF SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

PAPER Box.

GPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 738,633, dated September 8, 1903.

Application filed October 17,1902. `Serial No. 127,710. (No model.)

To all wiz/m it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES A. SCOTT, of Somerville, in the county of Middlesex and State and useful Improvements in Paper Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to paper boxes, and particularly to that typeof such box which is known as neck-box. f

Theobject of the invention is to provide a simple box of this type in which the top and bottom sections will be similar to or duplicates of each other.

A further object of the invention is to provide such a box which is collapsible or may be folded for transportation, thus making what is commonly termed a knockdown box.

To these ends the inventionconsistsin the construction of the box, substantially as hereinafter described and claimed.

Of the accompanying drawings`, Figure lis a perspective view of the main or bottom section of the box and the next section assembled. Fig. 2 represents a perspective view of the main or bottom section detached from the neck-section and with the closing-daps partially opened. Fig. 3 represents a longitudinal section of the box embodying my present invention, the three sections of the box being separate from each other. Fig. 4 represents a longitudinal section of a complete box embodying my present invention.

In the drawings the main or bottom sectionv a is shown as provided with opposite flaps c 0.2 and with a bottom flap c3 and a locking-flap d4, as clearly shown in Fig. 2, the said section being rectangular in form, scored in the ordinary manner to enable-it to be collapsed into the fiat condition when the flaps are unfolded.

. The neck-section b comprises asimple rectangular open-ended `section adapted to fit snugly within the section ct. Said neck-section may be beveled`\atone end, as shown, or f its two ends may be alike.

The cover-section c is practically id entical in allrespects with" the main or bottom section a. As shown in Figs. 3 and 4, said coversection c has opposite flaps c c2, a top iiap c3, and a locking-flap c4. This construction is obvious upon comparing Figs. 3 and 4, which are sections at a right angle to each through the parts of the box.

It will readily be understood that the three sections of the box maybe easily assembled and that owing to the fact that the bottom and cover sections are identical with each other it will make no difference which section is first applied to the neck-section b. When the flaps of the main and cover sections are opened, the entire box in assembled condition may be collapsed to a practically fiat condition, either for transportation or for printing. The fact that the neck-box has similar or duplicate cover and bottom sections facilitates the assembling of the parts, for the reason that it is not necessary that other the person assembling the parts shall first note a difference, so as to determine which section is to be connected with the bottom of the neck-section. Moreover, such construction reduces the number of changes which have to be made in the machine for cutting and scoring the blanks, for the reason that although three sections are employed in the box there are but two kinds of sections.

It will be observed that the neck-section is shorter than the combined length of the cover and bottom sections, so that the inner ends of the last-mentioned sections meet when the Cover-section is in place upon the box and so that the locking-flap c4 never engages the end of the neck-sect-ion, and consequently :the repeated removal and replacing of the cover does not causethe bending of the said fiap c4. The locking-Hap a4, on the contrary,

`is inserted between the adjacent walls of the neck and bottom sections after the bottomilap a3 has been folded interiorly ofthe opposite flaps d a2, whereby it serves as a Wedge yto frictionally hold the neck-section relatively against dislocation and also to prevent the dislocation of saidbottom-fiap.

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surface of one of the sides thereof, said neck- Section being shorter than the combined length of said cover and bottom sections, whereby the infolded 10cking-fiap of the cover-section escapes engagement with the upper end of the neck-section substantially as described.

2. A shoulder or neck box comprising a four-sided neck-section, and a four-sided outer o1' bottom section telescopically connected therewith, said bottom section having:r 1

two opposifely-overlapping side flaps and a long Iiap folded exteriorly over` said side flaps with its end inserted between the adjacent side walls of said neck-section and said outer i5 section.

In testimony whereof I have aixed'my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

v JAMES A. SCOTT. Witnesses:

A. W. HARRISON,

ADELINE C. RATIGAN. 

